Objectives:
  • Discuss the scientific revolution and scientists from this time period.
  • Analyze and discuss ethics related to the discoveries and theories that emerged.
  • Work collaboratively to research a scientist and create a trading card. Trading Card should include dates (birth/death, historical time period), important discoveries and theories, theories they disproved (previous misconceptions), your personal impression of the scientist and their work, and references from which information was retrieved.

Scientists:
  • Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Johannes Kepler
  • Roger Bacon
  • Rene Descartes
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Isaac Newton
  • Ibn al Haytham
  • Al-Biruni

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